Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.
Text Grab Alternatives
Text Grab is described as 'Minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Text Grab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Linux apps. The best Text Grab alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Grab are Greenshot, OSS Document Scanner, Snagit and GImageReader.
Alternatives list
78 Universal Copy alternativesUniversal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that won’t let you or inside images.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
119 Pocket Scanner alternativesPocket Scanner Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Pocket Scanner series. Search “Pocket Scanner Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!
FlyScreen is a powerful screenshot manager for iOS. Search your screenshots, copy text and links, organize by tags, and more.
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Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C#. It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen. Use it to easily crop out sections of vector graphic files such as Fireworks without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor.
66 Readiris alternativesPDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Complete suite for document Scanning. Any source: scanners, multifunction printers, e-mails, fax machines, web services or folders. Automatic document classification Data entry with assisted auto fields. Extract text from PDF Files and convert to indexed data. Export data to any.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
23 WindowTextExtractor alternativesWindowTextExtractor allows you to get a text from any window of an operating system including microsoft office programs, console windows and etc. It can recover password stored behind asterisks (*****) from most of the windows apps.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
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WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
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